But that’s just one of two crucial ways to view this news break by the Associated Press. Another way to put it is that the Bush Administration Suspended the Constitution for Over A Year without telling anybody.

Well, it’s true. That’s what the Bush administration did. It declared in secret that it did not have to follow the U.S. Constitution in its conduct. Then it carried out its declaration in secret.

Sure, now that the news has come out, the Bush administration is clarifying that gee, it ISN”T SUSPENDING THE CONSTITUTION ANY MORE. Except that it is. It is still carrying out exactly the same activities, which apparently involve the warrantless surveillance of millions of American communications. The ONLY difference is that now, the Bush administration SAYS that its conduct is NOT in violation of the 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Back then, it ADMITTED secretly that its actions ran against the U.S. Constitution.

WAKE UP, AMERICA! Your liberties have been and are being eviscerated.

What are you going to do about it?

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About the authorJim Cook

I haven't been everywhere, but I've lived lots of places in the USA: the North, the South, the East, the West, and places in between. Every place I've been, I've seen acts large and small of kindness, callousness and disregard. Here we are. What will we do?

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Why is the military being used here? Has congress declared war against the American people? If a law has been broken in the U.S., doesn’t the FBI have jurisdiction? Isn’t the National Guard supposed to be the federal group used for internal security force?

So many games here. The NATIONAL Guard being used as an army in Iraq. The army being used to restore domestic order after Katrina–and poorly too, since the national guard was too depleted to do the job. Now the army is doing the job of the FBI? Or is the army now the enforcement arm of the FBI? Or taking direct orders from the president’s office?

I’m so confused. I’m going to put some garlic in a pot with a chicken and after my nap have some chicken soup to try to clear my thinking.

Over at Broadsides.org there’s an article called citizenship malpractice (from March 24th) which equates the “responsibility” for the mess we’re in today with all of us in the U.S. who sat around (and continue to do so) and let this happen (and continue to happen).

We may as well adopt the Dick Cheney attitude when we read all these gross misuses of power and the bastardizations of democracy you keep pointing out: “so”.

For one, everyone who opposes the war, Bush’s economic, domestic and foreign policies, and their displeasure in the way our government has stopped working for us should send a clear message to Washington by not paying our income taxes until meaningful legislation is passed and has taken effect. It would take time to put into effect, but the results (that it would get their attention) would be almost guaranteed if it was organized and put out into the media in every way possible (to get as many people on board as want to participate). People would have to change their W-4’s so they take home as much as possible and end up owing the IRS as much as possible at tax time and then just not pay until things changed.

It is a time of fear in the face of freedom, a time of an emptying country and swelling cities, a time for the widening of previous roads and the opening of new paths, yet a time when these paths are mined by knowing algorithms of the all-seeing eye. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection. These are the times when maps fade, old landmarks crumble and direction is lost. Forwards is backwards now, so we glance sideways at the strange lands through which we are all passing, knowing for certain only that our destination has disappeared. We are unready to meet these times, but we proceed nonetheless, adapting as we wander, reshaping the Earth with every tread. Behind us we have left the old times, the standard times, the high times. Welcome to the irregular times.